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Fresh from being utterly humiliated by
Prime Minister David Cameron who gave Alex Salmond a political knock back for
the offer of a head to head debate, the Scottish National Party has decided to
highlight how stupid they are by carrying on the argument.

It is now a fight in an empty room!

Alex Salmond has wrongly issued a call David
Cameron to reconsider his decision to take him on in a televised debate or
"butt out" of the independence question although.

You run your campaign Salmond and leave
others to run their one!

There is no benefit to David Cameron having
a stand up argument with Alex Salmond, the best way to deal with him is to ignore him, without oxygen he will soon die off and fade away.

One can only wonder what they must be
thinking in Downing Street about this sad and deluded little man called Alex
Salmond.

He thinks he can pick who he fights in the indy debate.

Now, after rejection, Alex Salmond has
entered the screaming like a little girl phase, we all need to wait till this
passes.

Salmond has been outplayed and outwitted,
and now the row between man and the little boy who never grew up has becoming
increasingly rancorous.

David Cameron wrote to Salmond last week
refusing to take part in a head to head televised debate before next year's
referendum, the fact is this was never going to happen, and the fact the SNP
put so much stock in this shows them to be really lacking in talent.

George Laird has continually highlighted the
real lack of talent in the Scottish National Party.

And I am right again.

The SNP position is that the Prime Minister
cannot opt out of this debate because the UK government is so heavily involved
with it by producing analysis papers.

Downing Street takes the view that independence
should be debated and decided among Scots.

That means that Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man’
has no choice but to face off against Better Together Campaign Leader Alistair
Darling.

A fight between a man of gravitas (Darling)
and a man of populism (Salmond)!

Conservative Leader David Cameron said:

"Alex Salmond wants the (referendum)
question to be about anything other than the question. He would like to debate
the SNP versus the Tory party or Scotland versus England. It's not. It's a
debate between Scots about their future. What it should be is Alistair Darling,
leader of the No campaign, and Alex Salmond, leader of the Yes Campaign."

After getting blown off SNP strategists
have come up with a letter of six reasons why they have to have a head-to-head.

He wrote to Mr Cameron:

"Either you stand up and debate or
butt out of the debate for good”.

Apparently the SNP leader Alex Salmond isn’t
a man who believes in democracy!

But he does believe in pies and big
helpings as his waistline can attest to!

Salmond added:

"The case for a head-to-head debate
between us is unanswerable. You should reconsider."

Sounds like someone is ‘having a moment’!

Salmond in venting his anger also accused Mr
Cameron of seeking "power without responsibility" telling him his
government was "central" to the entire referendum debate.

With great power comes great responsibility….. Spiderman, as in ‘Spiderman, spiderman does whatever a spider can’.

As Alex Salmond and Scotland’s unpopular
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon slide down the slope to political 'Samageddon' at the ballot box, we should pause and remember that these two buffoons paint
themselves into this corner, no one else.

Now they are paying the price for it,
stupidity is a poor substitute for intelligence.

Finally, Alex Salmond has called on David Cameron
to spell out UK Government's plans to cut public spending in Scotland!

Alex Salmond, the leader of the SNP clique
isn’t having a good referendum campaign, Scots are ignoring him, and now the
rest of the UK is blowing him off!

One of the key areas in the Scottish
independence debate is defence, at Westminster, the SNP has the ‘Feeble Six’ of
MPs, before I go further; SNP MP Mike Weir demonstrated a master class on
delivering sheer tripe on Newsnight Scotland recently.

He stated that the UK would continue to pay
Scotland a subsidy for renenwables if independence was achieved in order to
meet ‘their’ UK targets.

If Scotland was to leave, Scotland wouldn’t
be part of ‘their’ targets and therefore he was talking complete rubbish, talk
about not understanding your brief!

And let’s remember, he is paid as an MP, it
raises the question what have the ‘Feeble Six’ been up to at Westminster?

Another cracker of that ‘band of brothers
and one sister’ is Angus Robertson, he is an Englishman who is also an SNP MP;
at present he is the Scottish National Party’s defence spokesman, another
unremarkable man who also appears not to have a grasp on his brief either.

London is a big city; perhaps he does a lot
of sightseeing in the Capital to while away his time in the absence of doing
meaningful work.

About circa 16 months ago I was on the BBC
independence debate hosted by Isobel Fraser, I was lucky and got picked to
speak, so I made a statement, I clearly stated that the SNP needed to adopt
NATO and keep Faslane as a nuclear submarine base. The day after I was
condemned on Newsnet Scotland which is more or less a partisan bias front for
the SNP, I got a lot of abuse for my pro NATO and pro nuclear stance. A recent
poll on Trident found a majority in favour of keeping the nuclear deterrent.

George Laird right again on both issues and
ahead of Alex Salmond!

The SNP or to be more exact Salmond changed
to NATO, not on principle on the basis that he couldn’t sell to Scots that we
should be a non NATO country. Simply put not being part of the ‘allies’ didn’t
well with Scottish people.

Defence has always been a problem for the
Scottish National Party because they don’t have a clue about what they are
talking about at any level. This is painful shown in their campaign to ‘save’
three airbases in Scotland then only to turn around and say later that Scotland
needed only one airbase for independence. I could say that rUK got it right on
closure but that wouldn’t be the truth, Scotland needs more than one military
air field. In times of emergency then civilian airfields would be taken over
for military use, presumably that isn’t in the SNP white paper for independence
because that document is going to be detail lite. It will however be full of
meaningless pap causing the death of a quite a few trees in the process!

The Scottish National Party is hailed by
Alex Salmond and Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as
some modern progressive party which has all the answers. The truth is rather
more complex, the SNP is full of malcontents in senior positions of people who
aren’t nationalists. What they actually are is open to question, some are
members of other organizations which use the SNP as a vehicle for their brand
of politics such as CND.

That is why the SNP comes across as bams in
many key policy areas, so what is a bam and where do they group?

Well the SNP has a CND group; they are the
gatekeepers of the anti nuclear policy of the last 30 years, 30 years of the
SNP getting it wrong, year in and year out. These people think they are some
kind of intellectuals but the reality is that they are the lunatic fringe. They
made the SNP more or less unelected at every Westminster election, in the
modern world of international politics they are dinosaurs. The party however
needed these people to keep it run as it stitched together a coalition of
malcontents to keep it running

So when it comes to the tin lid of nutty SNP
policies it is exceedingly difficult to rank them in any sort of order because
many are just plain daft.

However, I have always had an interest in
defence, so when Englishman Angus Robertson talks about defending my country of
Scotland, I cast an eye over it, not for knowledge but to see if there is any
improvement on the last deluded effort to leave his mouth.

The Commons defence select committee at
Westminster is more than slightly partisan, so when reading their stuff, it is
always handy to read between the lines and do your own research elsewhere. They
like to do a bit of patronising which given the SNP performance on defence is
understandable as Team Salmond is particularly clueless.

SNP MP Angus Robertson defence spokesman ……
fuck off that shite!

The Commons defence select committee has
been looking at the SNP's proposals for an independent Scotland's armed forces,
and they have given the plans the contempt they deserve, by a pretty thorough
thrashing.

The SNP has deliberately kept all their
policies vague; that has been a major mistake, the reason is simple, the
Nationalists haven’t done the work in any shape or form. That was a double edge
sword for them; again, Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon thought by leaving no
time for proper scrutiny, people would just vote using an emotional response.

They thought they could literally bounce
people into a Yes vote.

Well, things have bounced back and hit them
square in the face, leaving aside the nonsense of Yes Scotland the SNP front
and the other stupid ideas of setting up phoney groups run by SNP members, a
detailed and crafted approach was always necessary, this didn’t happen, the
Scottish independence campaign was needed to be run as a ‘special’ event, the
SNP were supposed to put together a Ferrari of a campaign instead, Scots got a
ride on lawn-mover and the SNP treated it as such. When people saw what the SNP
had done, they rightly turned their backs on it, selling a lawn-mover as a
Ferrari has a limited appeal to a few suckers.

The SNP need to deliver an honest
assessment of how they'd defend Scotland properly in the event of attack and
modern warfare is merely guns, bombs and bullets, new forms of warfare have
emerged; cyber warfare and financial warfare take prominence now. Finance has
we have seen can literally bring a country to its knees. Then there is the
terrorist threat, the West has seen only too graphically how that can pan out
with 9/11 and 7/7 events.

When I stated the SNP should adopt NATO and
pro Faslane, the SNP in a monumentally stupid move, failed to deliver both at
the next party conference, Alex Salmond bludgeoned NATO through while at the
same time expelling Trident.

You can’t have one without having the
other, it was a complete contradiction in every sense of the word and a huge
mistake not to go the full road, the half way house approach was and is a
disaster, it failed to neturalise American objections, although they say they
are publicly neutral, they aren’t, they are rightly concerned that ‘cranks’ in
a political party don’t understand the wider international picture.

NATO was founded in 1948, it is and has
been the cornerstone of defence in the West ever since, it is true however that
bad decision have been made by the individual countries such as the USA and UK
in recent years but the alliance is still sound.

28 countries make up NATO; only 3 of the 28
Nato countries the USA, Britain and France possessed nuclear weapons.

The SNP point to the fact that the other 25
don’t have nuclear weapons however, they have all signed up to the NATO
protocols; and those protocols state that they can’t expel the nuclear weapons
of a fellow member. If you sign up to NATO it is on NATO’s terms, you don’t get
to pick the bits you like; it isn’t like a buffet.

An independent Scotland won’t get NATO
membership on their proposal to expel nuclear weapons; and as to this
partnership for peace which has been mooted by people in the SNP that is just
stupid, juvenile students politics.

The SNP says it will commit £2.5 billion a
year to defence plus they state that they will get a share of British defence
assets, that negotiations isn’t as simple as it seems, in fact it could stretch
well past 2016. Each Nato country, under the terms of membership, must be
responsible for its own air defence, seems logical, however, the Scottish air
force if it gets its share of fast jets would have 10 of 100 jets currently in
services with the RAF.

10 fast jets isn’t enough and analysis
suggest that three times that number would be required as a minimum, and lets
us remember for a minute, these planes aren’t cheap, Scotland could be forking
out between £780 million and £1.7 billion.

£2.5 billion for an annual defence budget!

Then comes the Scottish Navy, the cost of a
surface fleet is going to be cheap, again, the SNP say only one naval base in
Scotland, in case you don’t know how ‘their ‘ defence plans come from, well the
SNP is alleged to have cut and pasted them from a UK defence review. However,
that review was for all of the UK and not solely Scotland. How big would the
Scottish Navy be and what capacity would it have if it had to respond to a NATO
request if membership was granted? No one knows, on the issue of land forces,
the SNP plans are for a mobile brigade, this means about 15,000 personnel. Bizarre,
the SNP made a stupid promise of a job for life if people sign up for the
Scottish Army. In an unofficial poll, most Scots serving in the UK Army vote No
to joining Alex Salmond’s Army.

No!

The reasons are varied, one of them is that
people get better and more opportunities as part of the UK Forces, the SNP
cannot match the offer of the UK. Scottish Officers would have to be trained at
Sandhurst, two reasons, the training is excellent and secondly Scotland can’t
support an officer training school, the talent and skills aren’t available. It
would take decades to get that up and running to UK standards, in the meantime,
this training would have to be outsourced. Although the UK made noises that
such training would not be available, I would reject such an assertion,
Scotland would remain a Commonwealth country if independent so would have a
strong case for entry to Sandhurst, in politics a number of red herrings are
flung about the place on both sides, however the SNP need to deal with the
facts. This Scottish independence campaign is effectively over, over and killed
off due to stupidity and poor judgment.

Alex Salmond will be the first SNP First
Minister of Scotland to lose a Scottish independence vote.

Nicola Sturgeon will be the first SNP
Deputy First Minister of Scotland to lose a Scottish independence vote.

The Scottish National Party is run as a
party within a party for the benefit of a select few, what they are now finding
out is that they don’t have their talent in the ranks to generate big ideas and
vision.

They have a problem which is embodied in a
‘cult of personality’ around one man Alex Salmond, he is surrounded by a motley
group of people who're "feart" to debate with him, his own
sycophantic ministers and backbenchers who aren’t the cream of Scotland’s
political talent, quite the opposite.

After being blown off as insignificant,
David Cameron has been branded a "big fearty" by the Scottish
Government.

The SNP have lost the moral high ground
after Cameron for refusing to engage in a live TV debate on independence with
Alex Salmond, now they are reduced to trying to spin this as a ‘victory’!

How is it a victory when Alex Salmond is
standing with his political trousers down around his ankles, he is every inch a
complete knob!

In the tit for tat exchanges, Salmond has
been accused of ducking.

Accused of "running scared", of
facing a head to head with ‘man of gravitas’; Alistair Darling, the head of
Better Together.

Salmond has so far refused to debate
independence with former Labour Chancellor, on the basis that as FM he thinks
he should face Cameron.

Last week, Alex Salmopnd was running off at
the mouth as he and the SNP strategists attempted to secure a live head-to-head
debate on St Andrews Day.

That was never going to happen, Cameron
doesn’t dance to Salmond’s tune; it’s the other way around.

In a letter of folly to Downing Street,
Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man’ stressed how the Prime Minister and the UK
Government were spearheading the No campaign. Salmond’s reasoning behind the
challenge is that because the UK Government has published anti-independence
analysis papers and so it was only right for them to debate!

That is contrary to what Alex Salmond said
to David Cameron over a year ago instructing him to “butt out” because this was
a matter for Scottish people.

Now Salmond wants Cameron to “butt in”
because it suits his purpose, the reason for a “butt in” is that Alex Salmond’s
campaign has completely failed, there isn’t going to be an independent Scotland
because Scottish people don’t trust Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon’s word.

Trust has gone.

Why did trust go?

The reason is simple, Salmond and Sturgeon
thought they could con the Scottish people using a stupid look on Salmond’s
face, screaming they represent and stand up for Scotland, a few street stalls,
a few vague promises, no plan, no vision and no work done!

Then Scottish people were all supposed to
line up like sheep and go vote Yes; putting their future on the line and that
of their children and communities!

If there was ever a master class on how not
to win an independence campaign then the Alex Salmond and the SNP should make a
few bob.

Yesterday, when Cameron wrote back to Salmond,
he made the point that the SNP leader, was trying to use a live head-to-head
between them as a distraction.

The Prime Minister told Salmond:

"It is entirely right for you to place
yourself at the head of the Yes campaign but not to decide who should lead for
the No campaign too. It is a well understood and reasonable principle that you
get to pick your own team's captain but not your opponent's as well."

He added:

"The lack of credibility of your plans
for a currency union, funding pensions and managing volatile oil revenues"!
Cameron also mentioned the rather clumsy tactic of Salmond of wanting to make
the independence debate to be an argument between "you and me, the
Scottish Government and UK Government, the SNP and Conservative Party."

The reality is that this independence
debate is between Salmond VS the people of Scotland.

The Scottish Government decision to brand
Mr Cameron a "big fearty" yet again shows what I keep saying; there
is a real lack of talent in the Scottish National Party.

Having been told to fuck off, the SNP decided
to milk their failure publicly, a load of clowns, and let’s get it right, the
idea was stupid in the first place, that should never have been allowed to go
public.

The First Minister said:

"His refusal to debate Scotland's
future with me can be summed up in one word, feart."

Alex Salmond is such a stupid little man,
it can only be a matter of time before SNP people internally will be calling
for him and Nicola Sturgeon to go, Scotland needs a Nationalist leader for the
SNP, not a prima donna bastard who has outlived his usefulness.

The only place he could lead Scotland is to
a pie shop, no one takes him seriously any more, he has a lot to answer for,
and 18th September 2014, Scotland gets its chance.

The Prime Minister of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland has formally refused to go head-to-head with Scotland's ‘jolly
fat man’ Alex Salmond.

The First Minister of Scotland who is
married to a woman old enough to be his mother is desperate for a televised
debate on the independence referendum.

He is desperate, but let us look at the
facts, Alex Salmond is as I said is married to a woman old enough to be his
mother, he combs his hair forward to make out he has a full head of hair and
his gut is hanging out all over the place like a woman having triplets.

Salmond should have some respect for the Office
of Prime Minister.

In a devastating move, David Cameron has
said the issue is a matter for "Scots living in Scotland" and should
not become a glorified general election.

Anyone who has a feeble grasp of politics
would have known that there was no way on God’s Earth that David Cameron would
debate with Alex Salmond.

Alex Salmond has lost the eScottish
independence referendum, because Salmond is a fool, he is a clown, he is a
buffoon and he is well out of his depth.

He has no one to work for him and his “cronies”
which include the Sturgeon clique are just trash!

David Cameron wrote his knock back in a
letter to Alex Salmond which effectively destroys any chance of a grudge,
grievance and malcontent fixture between Scotland and England.

The only fixture on the cards is Scotland
VS Alex Salmond.

Any TV debate should instead involve
Alistair Darling, the Labour MP leading the Better Together and Alex Salmond,
the move also shuts out Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First Minister Nicola
Sturgeon, little Miss Unpopular with her ‘wee angry Nat’ routine.

Alex Salmond is no statesman.

Cameron wrote:

"It is a well understood and reasonable
principle that you get to pick your own team's captain, but not your opponent's
as well."

Salmond slapped down across his fat jowls!

The Tory leader added:

"I understand why you might wish to
pursue a diversionary tactic. It is a convenient means of deflecting attention
away from the real issues - the lack of credibility of your plans for a
currency union, funding pensions and managing volatile oil revenues. You want
the independence debate to be an argument between you and me; the Scottish
Government and UK Government; the SNP and Conservative Party - in fact anything
rather than what it really is about. Nor is your argument with the rest of the
United Kingdom, it is with the people in Scotland."

Alex Salmond, the little boy who never grew
up, married to a woman old enough to be his mother firmly put in his place, in
truth anyone who is prepared to stand up could have done what David Cameron has
down.

Short version!

Fuck off!

Something which Cameron appeared to mouth
to English SNP MP Angus Robertson over the dispatch box, who is an annoying not
so little shit.

Cameron also makes the point that the
consequences of the vote on September 18 next year will be
"irreversible".

Adding:

"The referendum is therefore too
important to be reduced to the status of some glorified general election. People
should cast their vote in the knowledge that they are deciding not just for
themselves, but also for their children, grandchildren and succeeding
generations. It is for people in Scotland to decide. And it is right for you
and Alistair Darling - as the leaders of the respective campaigns, with votes
to cast as well as votes to win - to debate head-to-head on TV."

The rebuff clearly shows what I have always
said on this blog, there is a genuine lack of talent in the Scottish National
Party.

George Laird right again.

This stupid and ill judged maneuver was
always going to blow up in Alex Salmond’s face, how could he have not spotted
it?

Now, he will have to go with his tail
between his legs and beg Alastair Darling for a head to head, another failure
and another reason why independence support has collapsed, being ‘cute’ isn’t
smart.

Celtic manager Neil Lennon has been banned
from driving for six months after being found guilty of speeding.

The spot that he was playing ‘boyracer; is
a notorious accident blackspot on the A9 in Perthshire.

The A9 is a dangerous road, when people were
wondering how to help reduce fatalities, my first thought was that average
speed cameras was the right solution, I am sure you can google and find my
suggestion somewhere. It also turned out to be the view of the Transport
Minister a few days later.

Anyway, rather than lump it and be stoic,
Neil Lennon has decided he is not happy with the verdict, well you wouldn’t be.

In a show of the petted lip, he has branded
the verdict "nonsense."

He was disqualified under the totting up
procedure, if you accumulate too many points, then you get banned, Lennon, 42,
already had nine points on his driving licence when he was caught.

The solution to any speeding problem is
simple, you leave earlier.

Neil Lennon obviously likes driving, and
why shouldn’t he; it’s fun, however Lennon seems to need to retake his driving
test in my opinion, he was cleared on a tech­nicality on another driving charge
just weeks ago.

His continual habit of trying to use loopholes
to avoid being found guilty isn’t terribly dignified in his position!

He is supposed to be a role model, perhaps
he should act like one.

However, you have to admire his cheek, as
he tried to persuade Perth's Justice of the Peace Court that the Gatso radar
machine that clocked him driving at 83 miles per hour was not accurate.

His ‘brief’, Liam O'Donnell, wanted the case
to be thrown out on its ear because the certificate produced by the Crown in
evidence made no mention of the Gatso being accurate at the time.

Some people will try it on, but in Lennon’s
case, Justice of the Peace Allan Robertson rejected the no case to answer sub­mission.

Then he found Lennon guilty of speeding on the
Perth-Stirling dual carriageway.

Mr Robertson said:

"I have taken time to consider all the
evidence before me and I believe the Crown has put forward the case beyond
reasonable doubt and therefore I find you guilty. You were sitting on nine live
points and when somebody reaches that tally they should be very careful about
how they conduct themselves on the road. I am going to add four penalty points
to your licence, which will take you over the threshold for totting up [12
points] and you will incur a six-month disqualification from driving."

Win some lose some!

Neil Lennon was also fined £260 and given
one month to pay the fine in full.

He got off cheap on the fine, so happy endings
all round it seems, bar one, the Crown is happy, the public are happy, his
lawyer is happy.

Lennon added:

"You saw it for yourself. I do want to
say something about it."

Maybe given the circumstances of Scottish
independence going so badly for Alex Salmond and Scotland’s unpopular Deputy
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon that Neil Lennon should apply for an exemption from
the Laws of Scotland on the sole basis he doesn’t like guilty verdicts.

It seems that one of Alex Salmond’s former rising
stars, Highland Council's youngest member Alex MacLeod has resigned.

Hero no more, a hero is down!

He is facing allegations about his election
expenses.

As I recall, someone dobbed him in,
apparently the tip came from an unnamed individual, it seems that the SNP isn’t
a united party as Salmond and Sturgeon would have you believe.

Mr MacLeod studied Law at Edinburgh
University which means he has a few brain cells upstairs; he was also very
active in the Young Scots for Independence organization. , he rose up in that
organization to the position of National Secretary.

In 2010 he was appointed a Parliamentary
Assistant to the SNP MSP Rob Gibson.

McLeod was also his Campaign Manager in the
2011 election when Gibson captured the Caithness, Sutherland and Ross seat from
the Lib-Dems.

McLeod also worked for First Minister Alex
Salmond, he worked for the First Minister for 10 months in Edinburgh and
Aberdeen handling parliamentary and constituency work after he left school.

Prior to last year’s elections, Mr Salmond
had urged voters to back the teenager and described him as a
"grafter".

Given all this, I guess the ‘I’m a bam
defence’ isn’t able to be used.

Alex MacLeod was elected as a councillor in
May when he was aged just 19.

He was pretty young to be a councilor and
it is a shame that his career should end in such a bad note.

In December, he was reported to the
procurator fiscal by police, in connection with alleged offences under the
Representation of the People Act 1983.

A council spokesman said the local
authority had received notice via e-mail of Mr MacLeod's intention to tender
his resignation with immediate effect.

It is a rather unfortunate end to his political
career, he had ticked all the boxes for a successful career ahead, however; his
focus should have been on making sure his legal obligations were in order.

MacLeod had also previously resigned from
Highland Council's SNP group when the scandal broke.

It seems that everything is falling apart in the SNP, awhile ago I proposed training hubs to Scotland's unpopular Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as an idea to improve the quality of SNP candidates, like many a good idea of mine, it was ignored.

What qualifications did the SNP
investigator have to run an investigation?

Labour has rightly stepped up calls for the
SNP to apologise over the Bill Walker scandal which brought about this
by-election.

But so far, the SNP hasn’t paid the ‘blood
price’ no one has been sacked, it is busy as usual screwing over the working
class.

Bill Walker isn’t the only SNP scandal in
the party, Alex Salmond runs the SNP as a one man band, and the ‘tune’ of the
band is ‘fuck the poor’.

Bill Walker took the seat for the SNP in
2011 due to the landslide with a majority of just 630, the tide has now turned
for the Nationalist.

Labour’s candidate Cara Hilton is favourite
to win the by-election which is held on October 24.

Standing for the SNP is Shirley-Anne Somerville,
she wants to desert Yes Scotland as many have done in the past, the Scottish
independence campaign is dead, no one is sticking around to help Nicola
Sturgeon out unless they are getting a ‘pay day’.

Somerville said:

“The need for an SNP vote in the
Dunfermline by-election is highlighted by Labour run Fife council’s planned
school closures - which I am campaigning with local parents against. Local
schools are not the only key provision which require an SNP vote to protect.
The Council Tax freeze, free personal care for older citizens, no tuition fees
for young Scots, free bus travel for the over-60s, and no bridge tolls across
the Forth are only guaranteed a secure future by voting SNP in the
by-election.”

No one gives a shite about the local
issues; there is one issue, one issue only, SNP wife beating, punishment of
Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon and her odious husband Peter Murrell.

Ms Hilton for Labour said:

“It’s now a week since Shirley-Anne
Somerville was selected to be the SNP’s candidate for the Dunfermline
by-election. In these seven days, she has singularly failed to apologise to the
people of Dunfermline for allowing the SNP to ignore the warnings about Bill
Walker and selecting him for this constituency. The apology is all the more
important because the warnings go back as far as 2008 and Walker was defended
by senior SNP members in Fife when the allegations were published in a Scottish
newspaper last year. Dunfermline deserves better than this.”

Strong words from the future Labour MSP,
the public want to see an MSP speaking out, and this by-election is a great
opportunity.

Tory candidate James Reekie said the
behaviour of the two main parties is leaving voters “exasperated” with
politics.

James has a point, however, this is a
fight, and he isn’t getting into the ring on this occasion, he has no chance,
but its good experience nonetheless. His vote went backwards in 2011 when he
last stood.

He said:

“When the gloves are off in the heat of a
by-election, they just can’t seem to help themselves. That’s not what people
want to see - they want a mature debate on issues of daily importance to them.”

When will Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First
Minister Nicola Sturgeon arrive in Dunfermline to express how SNP wife beating
makes her sick to her stomach with her nasty, vile and poisonous Glasgow
Southside clique?

How knows, one thing they will have is a
big smile and an oily grin as they try to hoodwink the voters.

As to the SNP candidate, Shirley-Anne Somerville,
she looks like she will be going back to Yes Scotland, what price loyalty,
something that Ms. Sturgeon appears not to engender in her supporters.

I wonder if Ms. Hilton will use a quote
from the movie Kill Bill when Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First Minister Nicola
Sturgeon tries to avoid SNP wife beating questions on the campaign trail:

The SNP Government is so desperate for a
vote that they have so far made £32 billion of spending pledges for an
independent Scotland.

However, despite promising the Earth, they
aren’t saying how they would be paid for and sustainable funding although terribly
untrendy is a hard fact of life that Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon can’t
escape from.

The new pledges yet again are a clear
marker that the Scottish independence campaign is bogus!

It is one massive political fraud that is
being attempted to be fostered on the Scottish people.

There is no detail.

Do you want a herd of camels?

Stick around some fool will promise you it
eventually in the SNP.

The reality that we all live in there is no
such thing as a ‘free lunch’, someone somewhere is paying for it.

The SNP is making "extravagant"
promises because they know that they won’t deliver on them, like the Lib Dems,
they have drawn up a wish list, and will sell it for votes, but just as the Lib
Dems sold out the people so will Salmond.

One of the country’s most senior pension
experts has said that the latest SNP pledge to examine lowering the retirement
age would require “big cuts” to public services.

I have stated and stated and stated, that
public sector reform was the task of the second SNP term, it never happened.

So, George Laird right again, but also
ahead of the curve.

Better Together is going through the SNP
wish list that has released 17 spending commitments for an independent Scotland
made by the SNP.

These covering areas such as pensions and
defence, and the commitments look very shaky indeed.

The total of £32.1 billion includes an
estimated £6 billion which is the cost
of reversing the UK Government’s plan to increase the state pension age to 67.

That latest Nationalist suggestion was unveiled
at the weekend and should never have been made, it is sheer tripe.

This Yes Campaign is looking more and more bizarre,
it shows up Salmond and Sturgeon as a pair of buffoons, renationalising the
Royal Mail and higher annual increases in the state pension!

Does the Scottish Government realize how
inept such nonsense looks to ordinary people?

Salmond opens his mouth and roars out
un-costed promises as if he was a ‘wean’ in a sweet shop.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies is on the
case and warned Scotland faces making £5.9 billion of tax increases and
spending cuts immediately after independence.

This is need because if not, nothing would
be able to stabilise its finances, then Scotland would slide down hill so fast
that we would be like Greece, except they have better weather and life expectancy.

Alistair Darling, the former Chancellor and
leader of Better Together has condemned Alex Salmond for making “false promises.”

He said:

“Experts have repeatedly warned of the
costs of independence as oil revenues decline and our population ages more
rapidly than the rest of the UK. Yet the nationalists continue to make extraordinary
promises without telling us how they would pay for them.”

Darling added:

“Over the next few weeks, to try to get his
struggling campaign back on track, Alex Salmond will make ever more extravagant
claims. He is either making false promises he cannot pay for or he is planning
big tax rises.”

On the pensions report SNP ministers have provided
no calculations for how much this would costed.

With the continuous neverendum of false
promises, John Swinney is looking helpless as his reputation is dragged through
the gutter by Salmond and Sturgeon.

Ronnie Bowie, a senior partner with pension
consultancy Hymans Robertson, said the “burden on the public purse will
increase substantially if nothing is done” to reform the state pension.

That means cuts to services, huge cuts, we
would see the poor and vulnerable driven over the edge; poverty and hardship
beyond belief all provided by your friendly neighbourhood ‘fat man’, Alex
Salmond.

Bowie added:

“Those are big numbers and if the Scottish
Government chose to keep the current state pension age, it’s going to have to
be paid for. It’s not going to be paid through tinkering around the edges –
something big is going to have to be cut to pay for it.”

SNP ministers have pointed out that life
expectancy is lower north of the Border.

So calculations based on hoping people die
quick?

Is that how the SNP think they will balance
the books, hope and aspiration of you dying early?

If you want to know how bad the SNP campaign
is looking at this point, Alex Salmond suddenly promised to renationalise the
Royal Mail, just hours before his Finance Minister John Swinney said it was
“impossible” to predict if this would happen after independence is a corker.

It seems that the ‘big battle’ between
Prime Minister David Cameron and Alex Salmond isn’t going to happen.

In the Red corner is David Cameron, a man
with a young wife, a full head of hair and a reasonably flat stomach.

In the blue corner, Alex Salmond, a man
married to a woman old enough to be his mother, losing his hair, and a gut hanging
out all over the place.

It is as the coalition sources say as
"a non-starter".

Alex Salmond is desperate, and recent outbursts
of un-costed promises show him up as a fantasist.

Re-nationalise Royal Mail is a non starter
and the newest idea of retire a year early when the trends all over Europe is
to keep people working for longer will not happen either.

Nordic Welfare?

Bullshit as well.

“We are off to see the Wizard, the
wonderful Wizard of Oz.”

Always liked that movie, now Salmond is a
man who will say anything that sounds good, and then there is the issue of the
financial black hole in Scotland’s finances.

Plan for that?

Nope!

Alistair Darling, of Better Together
campaign, says that Salmond is engaging in the politics of deflection.

The idea that David Cameron was ever going
to do a TV head-to-head with Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man’ was never going to
happen, you don’t get in the way of someone who is burying themselves, you
stand back and let them get on with it.

Alastair Darling says that he speaks for
Scotland on the independence issue, and has promptly threw down the gauntlet to
challenge the First Minister to debate with him.

Salmond’s position is that Blair Jenkins, the
disastrous leader of Yes Scotland is more appropriate opponent for Mr Darling.

One senior Whitehall insider said:

"The Scottish Government might
continue to bang away at this, but it's a non-starter. There is ­absolutely no
way the Prime Minister will debate with Salmond. This is not about Salmond
versus Cameron. This is about Salmond versus Scotland."

Quite so ma’am!

In a new begging letter to the Prime
Minister, Salmond insisted:

"It is not possible, with any degree
of consistency or credibility, to involve yourself and your government so
centrally in the referendum process and then refuse to publicly debate these
very issues."

Someone bring a chicken in here?

The Unionist side has rightly thought-out
that their campaign should be led by Scottish voices.

And what is the devastating thinking to
counter this move?

Whether Salmond likes it or not, he will
have to step into the ring with Alastair Darling at some point.

Things are going really badly, no George
Laird radical thinking.

The biggest laugh of the indy rally on
Saturday for me was Aamer Anwar from Glasgow University, standing beside Blair
Jenkins.

He is a Sturgeon crony, I remember him from
my time at university; he wasn’t liked. He is a Sturgeon crony as I said, and a
reason why Scotland should vote No.

When I saw him, it really did reinforce in
me that I am not giving Alex Salmond and Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First
Minister Nicola Sturgeon, my vote September 2014.

"The biggest prize from a Yes next
year is not that we will never again have Tory governments we didn't vote for -
important though that is for the well-being of our society. Instead it is
having the ability to make Scotland's great wealth, talent and resources work
better for the people who live here."

So, not Scotland for the Scots, I wonder if
the working class doing the grunt work realise that they aren’t
campaigning for a better Scotland for them?

Patently not, it’s for rich people stupid!

And more fool them for doing so, I was
conned myself, so I am not too hard on those who still believe in something that
doesn’t exist, fairness, equality and social justice in the Scottish National Party under Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon.

Jenkins added:

“When we take time to examine the facts
people from all walks of Scottish life - pensioners, parents, students,
business-people, women, seniors, people across society - see that a Yes vote
makes sense for us as a nation and for us as individuals."

Jenkins should be sacked, I have always
held that opinion, he doesn’t impress me, or the public, the polls say No!

In his speech, Jenkins made an impassioned
plea to campaigners to go out into communities with ever more vigour and
optimism over the next 12 months.

There is hardly anyone wanting to work for
the Scottish National Party, and given the way they treat others, I am not
surprised.

As to the Yes people going out to
communities, that is just the SNP.

The SNP rebranded their branches as Yes
whoever, but it is still the SNP.

8,000 people, not doing a terribly good job
Alex Salmond, you get more people at a single football game than at an indy march.